How To Answer The Interview Question ‘Where Do You See Yourself In 5 Years?’

‘Where do you see yourself in five years?’ is a popular job interview question, and a tough one. Who can predict the future? What do they want you to say?

Many job seekers think that ‘I see myself in your job’ or ‘I want to move into management’ are good answers because they show that you are ambitious and want to grow and move up. However, this isn’t always the best answer to give.
If you’re interviewing with a large corporation, this upwardly-mobile answer may be OK—because (depending on your job level), there’s probably room for you and your future boss to move up.
However, if you’re interviewing with a small company, your boss may not have room to move up, so ‘I want to move up’ may be a threat to their job. Always factor in the company’s unique situation.

3 Eye-Catching Job Application Techniques That Work

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• The bad news is that it’s a tough, competitive job market out there.
• The good news is that it’s not hard to stand out… if you know what to do.

So today, I want to give you three techniques that’ll provide the immediate boost you need for your job application to get noticed – so you can get hired for your dream job.

I’ll also share a great resource at the end that’ll help you implement these techniques as quickly and easily as possible.
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Great. Let’s jump into the real problem.

4 Tips On Backing Up Your Soft Skills With Hard Facts

Oftentimes soft skills are indicated with words such as team player, detail-oriented, creative, innovative, problem solver/critical thinker, visionary, responsible, dependable, flexible, effective communicator, resourceful, professional, and more. While soft skills are important to employers, simply labelling the resume with these words or saying it at the job interview won’t produce much results. On the resume, it may help improve your ranking with the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) looking for keyword matches, but to the hiring manager reviewing your resume and conducting the interview, it’s simply fluff. You need to back it up with hard facts.

When soft skills are presented with hard facts it can help seal the deal. Here’s what you have to do on the resume and at the job interview:

3 Soft Skills Needed By Every Great Leader

Soft skills get a bad rap. Yet more organizations are requiring development on the softer side than ever before.

“Companies have moved away from the ‘command and control’ decision-making style. Managing day-to-day decisions takes away [leaders’] perspective and capacity to focus. Leaders must lead through others. You don’t accomplish that only with technical skills. You have to have [those skills], but to achieve the next level of success, you have to be able to lead through others,” says Marie Holmstrom, the Charlotte, N.C.-based director of talent management and organization alignment with Towers Watson.
And recent research from HBR states, “Once people reach the C-suite, technical and functional expertise matters less than leadership skills and a strong grasp of business fundamentals.” In a nutshell, soft skills.

How To Answer Interview Questions About Your Weaknesses

Who else hates interview questions about your greatest weaknesses? We all know not to say anything bad about ourselves in job interviews, so many job seekers answer this question in a way that’s obviously fake…have you ever said, “I’m a perfectionist,” or “I work too hard?” Interviewers will see right through this and probably come back to ask it in another way later (if they don’t lose interest in you immediately from that answer).